Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-11

Will was at once concentrated.
Mime d'Esnermeuil stood trans
fixed, immovable as if in cataleptic
fit. | mesmerized her forehead with
my hand, and she sank drowsily into
an armchair.
Sin this state of somnambulism |
could draw from her inmost being her
most secret thoughts.
'.She was forced to answer all my
questions.
Madam I said, you meant to
poison me with your Corinth wineP
eyes, did; it contained prussic
acid
"'And what next, having failed in
this?'
81 shall have you murdered.
"'By whom?'
"'By my servants.
care your servants ready for the
aggression?
They stand outside in the cor
ridor, ready armed, and await the
ringing of my bell to rush in upon
you.
"'How many men are there?'
Give
"'And when I am killed?'
"'Your splendid diamonds shall be
mine
Il rang the bell violently.
Immediately five ruffians, armed
with swords, burst into the room.
but | held in my hand a pistol, the
magic property of whose load, when
exploded, rendered motiOnless in their
several attitudes all those who came
within reach of its charge. | fired on
the intruders, who were all five in
stantly brought to q deadlock, trans
muted, as it were, into stone.
'I turned toward Nine. dEsner-
meuil, who was still in her trance, and
asked whether these men were all her
accomplices.
''She nodded in the affirmative.
"'Then, said I, they shall witness
your punishment
CAT once collecting all my mental
and physical energies I put the fair
widow into SO deep a state of trance
that her powers of clairvoyance were
increased a hundredfold. [ mesmer-
lied her until her teeth clattered, and
asked her where she was.
'She sighed deeply, and muttered:
lin a region of thick ice and in
tense cold! And she wrung her hands
and CRASHED her teeth.
81 continued mesAerizing her I'M
til the tips of her fingers quiyered and
curled backward
Nov, what do you see?' [ asked.
"a stifled groan escaped her lips:
"'Fire" she walled, u place where
there is nothing but fire! Oh, have
mercyr
".Not yet [ said, descend still
lower and tell me what you see
Il gave her few more magnetic
passes.
''Soon she foamed at the mouth, and
her eyes started from their sockets.
Now, said |. where are you?'
"'Oh, horror of horrors! she
shrieked, while her whole frame shook
and Writhed in the most appalling
manner; i am in hell, and surrounded
by all the spirits of the damned!
''Of course, while this scene lasted
her accompliees, although unable tC
move, were fully alive to the signif-
canoe of the awful experience their
mistress had undergone but they could
render her no assistance. With a few
more waves of my hands [ might have
sent her soul down forever into that
abode of wretchedness and despair Oh
whose brink she now raved, but l re-
versed the mesmeric fluid aTd by slow
degrees brought her back to her first
| trance.
Like pillars of salt the nice little
party stood rooted there, with Nine.
'Esnermeuil, like the late Mrs. Lot
| by their side. [ cast last look on
the group, wrapped myself in a dense
| cloud of incense, and flew away.
THE police, when they came on the
spot, found Nine. d'Esnermeuil the
rext morning surrounded by hel
braves, still planted where [ had left
them. They were with difficulty re-
stored to proper sense of their situa'
| ton.
cardinal Mazarin, whose acquaint-
ance | had made through Maria Man
cini, gave our gay city of Paris the
amusing spectacle of seeing the hand
some widow hanged by her fair neck
aud her whole gang of accomplish:
| broken on the wheel IN the Place de
Greve, then the usual place for eNecu
tons of this sort Ann of Austria
the queen mother, and the entire cour
were present on this occasion and Ell
loved the sight exceedingly.
Il take single drop of my rejuye
mating panacea on every change O.
the moon, and it agrees we'll with me
| as am now 9. $50 wears old"